Reminds me of a story about Jackson Pollock, don’t know if it really happened though or is just a joke.
At a Jackson Pollock exhibition, there was a group of art connoisseurs discussing one of his paintings where it was all black and gray except for one little streak of red. They were going back and forth saying what they all thought he meant by it. Was it the futility of man staring into the void, was it that even in darkness there is always hope, etcetera.
But then Jackson Pollock showed up and some one asked him and he told them, “Oh that? That happened when I was painting that one over there”
It’s kind of crazy to think that there’s a case to be made that Jackson Pollock is only as well known an artist as he is because he and other abstract expressionist artists were artificially promoted by the CIA worldwide to attempt to counteract the growth of Soviet realism and demonstrate the freedom of expression in the US.
“See? Even the guy who gets splatters of paint from one incomprehensible ‘art’ piece onto another can be successful in America!”
It was also emphasizing that art like that couldn’t have been successful in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, which probably were true given the nationalized focus on cultivating culture (thanks a lot, Plato…).
Reminds me of a story about Jackson Pollock, don’t know if it really happened though or is just a joke.
At a Jackson Pollock exhibition, there was a group of art connoisseurs discussing one of his paintings where it was all black and gray except for one little streak of red. They were going back and forth saying what they all thought he meant by it. Was it the futility of man staring into the void, was it that even in darkness there is always hope, etcetera.
But then Jackson Pollock showed up and some one asked him and he told them, “Oh that? That happened when I was painting that one over there”
It’s kind of crazy to think that there’s a case to be made that Jackson Pollock is only as well known an artist as he is because he and other abstract expressionist artists were artificially promoted by the CIA worldwide to attempt to counteract the growth of Soviet realism and demonstrate the freedom of expression in the US.
“See? Even the guy who gets splatters of paint from one incomprehensible ‘art’ piece onto another can be successful in America!”
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It was also emphasizing that art like that couldn’t have been successful in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, which probably were true given the nationalized focus on cultivating culture (thanks a lot, Plato…).